Clear Channel Chairman Stepping Down/StopRush Gathers Momentum

Mar 27, 2013, 10:59am CDT
Mark Mays to step down as chairman of Clear Channel’s board

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This week media giant Clear Channel Communications revealed that its Chairman of the Board (and son of the company's founder) Mark Mays will be leaving his position in May.

It's been a very rough year for Clear Channel. Their right wing radio golden boy Rush Limbaugh has been battered by the StopRush movement through the efforts of activist groups like Flush Rush Facebook. Last month, Clear Channel reported losses of $424 million for 2012. The media company has been firing employees throughout the past year in an effort to stop the hemorrhaging, to no avail.


http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/blog/2013/03/mark-mays-to-step-down-as-chairman-of.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/28/1197547/-Clear-Channel-Chairman-Stepping-Down-StopRush-Gathers-Momentum

TIME Magazine Features Two Covers, Two Couples - Declares ‘Gay Marriage Already Won’

The Greatest Show on Earth - by Mike Luckovich

"...and if you're looking for Bullet Trains, go to Italy"

America’s future: too frail to work, too poor to retire will become the “new normal”

We are on the precipice of the greatest retirement crisis in the history of the world. In the decades to come, we will witness millions of elderly Americans, the Baby Boomers and others, slipping into poverty. Too frail to work, too poor to retire will become the “new normal” for many elderly Americans.

That dire prediction, which I wrote two years ago, is already coming true. Our national demographics, coupled with indisputable glaringly insufficient retirement savings and human physiology, suggest that a catastrophic outcome for at least a significant percentage of our elderly population is inevitable. With the average 401(k) balance for 65 year olds estimated at $25,000 by independent experts—$100,000 if you believe the retirement planning industry—the decades many elders will spend in forced or elected “retirement” will be grim.

According to the author, the impending crisis will happen in ‘waves’ to a majority of elderly Americans:

Jesus Had 2 Dads Too!

SCALIA: Have gays and lesbians tried NOT having homosexual sex?

Here Are the 7 Worst Things Antonin Scalia Has Said or Written About Homosexuality
This week the Supreme Court will hear arguments about equal rights for gay Americans. But we already know what Scalia thinks.

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7. Have gays and lesbians tried NOT having homosexual sex?

During oral arguments in Lawrence, the attorney challenging the Texas law argued that it was "fundamentally illogical" for straight people to be able to have non-procreative sex without being harassed by the state while same-sex couples did not have the right to be "free from a law that says you can't have any sexual intimacy at all." But Scalia pointed out that gays and lesbians could just have sex with people of the opposite sex instead. "It doesn't say you can't have—you can't have any sexual intimacy. It says you cannot have sexual intimacy with a person of the same sex." Later on in his dissent, Scalia argued that Americans' constitutional right to equal protection under the law wasn't violated by the Texas law for that reason. "Men and women, heterosexuals and homosexuals, are all subject to (Texas') prohibition of deviate sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex." That should sound familiar: It's the same argument defenders of bans on interracial marriage used to make, arguing that the bans were constitutional because they affected whites and blacks equally.

Scalia has been on a tear lately, calling the Voting Rights Act a "racial entitlement" and ripping into the president in a dissent on Arizona's harsh anti-immigration law in the middle of an election season. But when it comes to LGBT rights, he's been off the rails for a long time

much more:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/scalia-worst-things-said-written-about-homosexuality-court

SCOTUS, Whose Side Are You On?

Remembering Harvey Milk's Passionate Refrain 35 Yrs Ago: “Come out . . . come out . . . come out.”

Today we all have friends, colleagues and relatives who are gay. That’s the way societies change. The moral circle widens. The boundaries of empathy expand. This was the genius of the strategy in Harvey Milk’s passionate refrain on Gay Freedom Day almost 35 years ago: “Come out .?.?. come out .?.?. come out.” Despite the pain and risk, Milk knew that once enough gay men and women found the courage to stand up, it would became impossible to sustain bigotry or defend discrimination.

Draw Your Own Conclusions: Religion and Gay Marriage in the Senate

Religion and Gay Marriage in the Senate
by BooMan
Tue Mar 26th, 2013 at 07:45:57 PM EST

The ten Democratic senators who have refrained from endorsing gay marriage are all professed Christians. Here they are.